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The Society of Malaŵi Journal
TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR GEORGE SHEPPERSON
Ed Yorke
Professor George Shepperson provided tremendous support and advice for
my Cambridge University PhD research project of the early 1980's in regard to the
impact of the Chilembwe insurrection on colonial authority in Northern Rhodesia
during World War 1. The literature and sources he recommended proved to be
invaluable and he is cited and effusively thanked in the Palgrave 2015 publication of
my doctoral dissertation entitled: Northern Rhodesia and the First World War:
Forgotten Colonial Crisis.
That same year (2015) we recommenced correspondence in regard to
the 100th anniversary of the Chilembwe rebellion. He was also cited in my
earlier 1990 published article in the Journal of African History: 'The Spectre of a
Second Chilembwe: Government, Missions and Social Control in Northern
Rhodesia'. He remains for me the iconic figure in Central African historiography.
Dr. Ed Yorke. Visiting Research Fellow, University of Reading. Retired Senior
Lecturer, Dept. of War Studies, RMA Sandhurst (1989-2019).
Archive Images No: 12
Testimonial by Lieut. Col. J. Mileham for newly promoted Captain George Shepperson.
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